496: Toxic Leadership. This Is How You Spot It. This Is How You Know.

This is Jocko podcast number 496 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Wheeling. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. So I get asked a lot of questions for years get asked question uh questions about toxic leadership. Right?

Questions like, what do you do if I you know, what should I do if I have a toxic leader or how do you handle a company when there's toxic leadership? That kind of thing. But the problem with the term toxic leadership and toxicity and specifically toxic leadership is that's a such a broad term. And, you know, when someone tells me they have a toxic leader, it could mean a whole bunch of different things, even though we kind of all know what it means, right?

It means bad leadership. That's what everyone's implying. Well, I found a paper um written by an army colonel that was at the at the uh army war college and It it's just a paper about toxic leaders and the characteristics of toxic leaders and then the types of toxic leaders that they became become. And I think it's really when when I read it, it's one of those things how, you know, when you get a a certain type of car and then you look you're driving around and you keep seeing that type of car everywhere?

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